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New monarch gives fresh impetus to Scotland’s independence debate
Queen Elizabeth II’s death in Scotland indelibly associates the nation with the handover to a new monarch, but her passing also reignites the debate over Scottish independence from the UK. Thousands of people stood for hours on Sunday to see the 96-year-old’s coffin arrive from her Balmoral estate to Edinburgh’s Palace of Holyroodhouse, and the formal proclamation of Charles as king. But there is a strong vein of republicanism in Scotland, and a few heckles could be heard amid the crowds massed along the Royal Mile. One 22-year-old woman was detained for a breach of the peace for holding a placard with an ... (full story)
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